Personal, Religious and Citizenship Education (PRCE)

PRCE is a planned programme of learning opportunities and experiences that help children and young people grow and develop as individuals, as members of families and of social and economic communities. The Religious Education component of this course is concerned with helping students of all faiths develop open, sensitive, reflective and critical approaches to understanding humankind’s varied religions and beliefs, exploring practices, values, beliefs and lifestyles, relating these to their own experiences and to questions of everyday life, as well as taking into account the views of those who have a non-religious world view.

PRCE actively promotes British values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty and respect and tolerance for those of different cultures and lifestyles; providing clear guidance on what is right and what is wrong.
(See also our page on Promoting British Values.)

Citizenship education: aiming to build young people’s knowledge, skills and conviction to play an effective role in their communities and country

Religious Education

The framework for our provision and much of the work that we will be doing in these lessons is laid down for us in The North Yorkshire Curriculum Entitlement Framework for Personal Social Health Economic Education and Citizenship, Key Stages 3 and 4 and The North Yorkshire Agreed Syllabus for RE.

This gives us the following topic areas that we will cover in each year in the PRCE Programme:

Year

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

Unit 5

Unit 6

7 (KS3)

3 per fortnight

Wellbeing

Beliefs – does it make sense to believe in God?

Judaism

Cold Case File – Investigating the empty tomb

My place in the world –

Pilgrimage

8 (KS3)

3 per fortnight

What is good and what is right?

Making Choices– options and careers.

Being Sikh and being British

Parliament and the Legal System

Multi Faith Britain

How do we deal with suffering + Buddhism

9 (KS4)

3 per fortnight

Careers and Enterprise

Marriage and Family Life (incl sex outside marriage, contraception and sexuality)

Matters of Life and Death (incl Abortion)

Rights and Responsibilities

Belief in God

Community Cohesion

10 (KS4)

3 per fortnight

Careers- preparing for interviews

Crime+ Punishment

The UK and its place in the world

Preparing for exams

Peace, Conflict and modern day slavery

The role of the media in society

11 (KS4)

2 per fortnight

(excluding Set One)

Personal Finance and Relationships (Parenthood)

Consumer, employment and Legal Rights

Resilience – coping with Year 11. Including the causes of stress and stress management.

Environmental and medical issues

Revision strategies and exam skills

However, we are also clear that the best Personal Development work responds to local need, and from time to time we find it necessary to be flexible in the way we apply this framework as the particular needs of our pupils take priority over any prescribed guidelines.

The Wider Picture
It is also important to note that, as a College, we do not promote personal development through these timetabled lessons alone. They are a vital part of our commitment – but only a part. Everything we do, through the curriculum, tutors, assemblies, extra-curricular activities, rewards and consequences etc. contributes to pupils’ personal development; it is important that both pupils and staff understand that these lessons exist as part of a greater whole and not in isolation.